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Title Statement Ugliness and judgment : on architecture in the public eye
Publication, Distribution, etc. (Imprint) Princeton, New Jersey : Princeton University Press, [2019]
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Physical Description 223 pages illustrations 23 cm.
Bibliography, etc. Note Includes bibliographical references and index.
Summary, etc When buildings are deemed ugly, what are the consequences? In Ugliness and Judgment, Timothy Hyde considers the role of aesthe tic judgment - and its concern for ugliness - in architectural debates and the ir resulting social effects across three centuries of British architectural history. From eighteenth-century ideas about Stonehenge to Prince Charles's opinions about the National Gallery, Hyde uncovers a new story of aesthe tic judgment, where arguments about architectural ugliness do not pertain solely to buildings or assessments of style, but intrude into othe r spheres of civil society. Hyde explores how accidental and willful conditions of ugliness - including the gothic revival Houses of Parliament, the brutalist concrete of the South Bank, and the historicist novelty of Number One Poultry - have been debated in parliamentary committees, courtrooms, and public inquiries. He recounts how architects such as Christopher Wren, John Soane, James Stirling, and Ludwig Mies van der Rohe have been summoned by tribunals of aesthe tic judgment. With his novel scrutiny of lawsuits for libel, changing paradigms of nuisance law, and conventions of monarchical privilege, he shows how aesthe tic judgments have become entangled in wider assessments of art, science, religion, political economy, and the state. Moving beyond superficialities of taste in order to see how architectural improprieties enable architecture to participate in social transformations, Ugliness and Judgment sheds new light on the role of aesthe tic measurement in our world.
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A novel interpretation of architecture, ugliness, and the social consequences of aesthetic judgment
Introduction: Architecture, Judgment, and Civic Aesthetics p. 1 Stones Nuisance p. 40 Irritation p. 62 Incongruity p. 88 Persons The Architect p. 112 The Profession p. 134 The Monarch p. 156 Conclusion: Ugliness and Its Consequences p. 180 Acknowledgments p. 188 Notes p. 190 Photo and Illustration Credits p. 210 Index p. 212